After Li Ang won three consecutive championships, many people do not recognize this as a dynasty.

If they win the championship again this season, those dark guys will have nothing to say.

As fans are looking forward to, the Suns embark on a new season journey.

In the first three games of the new season, the Suns won three consecutive victories.

But the bad news came in the fourth game. Stoudemire suffered a cartilage injury in the game and needed minimally invasive knee surgery. It is expected that it will not return until the All-Stars.

Following Jiongsen, the Suns won the championship last season, which is equivalent to two missing.

However, at that time, Li Ang still felt that this was nothing.

Anyway, Sir Xiao has made a comeback after the All-Star. Before that, he and Nash should be able to withstand it!

Li Ang may be able to withstand it, but Xiao Ao failed.

Because Sir Xiao is not here, O'O has been under great pressure on the defensive end this season.

He has to take into account both assisting defense and protecting the basket.

On the offensive end, without Xiao Si's help to share the pressure, Xiao Ao played harder than before.

His playing time has increased, he has done more work, so his consumption will naturally be greater.

A week before the All-Star Game, when the Suns doctor evaluated Xiao Ao's health, he suggested that he need to take a break.

But the ranking battle between the Suns and Mavericks and Spurs was a critical moment, and O'Neal Jr. was unwilling to give up.

So, things happened.

In a game before the All-Star Game, O'Neal Jr. suddenly covered his knee and fell to the ground while grabbing the rebound.

He wanted to get up and continue the competition, but after getting up, he felt that his knees were not strong enough and he even limped when walking.

In the end, he was helped by Li Ang and Nash and walked into the player passage.

The post-match injury report was heartbreaking, O'Neal Jr.'s meniscus was damaged in his left knee and needed surgical treatment.

This means that O'Neal Jr.'s 2005-06 season ends early!

At the same time, another bad news came from Stoudemire because his recovery was not as expected, so he, who would have returned after the All-Star Game, has now become an indefinite quit.

The meaning of an indefinite quit is that the Suns doctor said to the team inside: "Amare is likely to be unable to return this season!"

It is true that there is a miracle doctor on the Suns, but no matter how powerful a doctor is, it is impossible for a team to completely eliminate injuries.

This is just like driving. Even the older drivers may encounter accidents.

No matter how serious the author is, he will sometimes post pictures and be deleted.

These things are difficult to avoid.

In this way, Li Ang and Nash looked at each other, confused.

This is damn

As we fought, why did all the teammates be beaten away?

After a while, the five tigers who won the Suns last season were now only two left.

This basketball game is a bit costly.

Then, the Suns' lineup became: Nash, Laga Bell, Leon, Haslem and Cott Thomas.

This leads to a problem: The Suns' offense that survives is not that sharp.

Cott Thomas and Haslem are the same type of players. They are both blue-collar insiders with excellent defensive skills and tough style, but have no independent offensive ability.

Their scoring ability is really urgent. Although they can steal a few by occasionally taking a mid-range shot, their offensive stability and range are completely unable to meet the needs of seven-second offensive.

Not only is it just a seven-second attack, but it can't be beaten with a V-shaped pick-and-roll.

If you want to play a V-shaped pick-and-roll, you have to be like Sir Si or O. You can quickly move after the pick-and-roll and strongly end the inside line that can attack.

Haslem and Thomas are good at ending other people's offenses, but their ability to end the offense is very urgent.

Like some people, they can only bear but not attack.

So in the few games after the All-Star Game, the Suns' offense was a mess, and they could only rely on the personal abilities of Nash and Li Ang to solve the problem.

During that time, Li Ang also scored 40+ points in a row. If Li Ang scored less than 40, the news in the newspaper would become "Li Ang only scored 36 points."

The key is that Li Ang may not win if he scores so many points, so that's a lot of bad luck.

There is no way, Colangino Jr. can only urgently trade from the Knicks before the trade deadline to get Tim Thomas as a supplement to the team's fourth position.

For this, the Suns paid the price of Nate Robinson and some tribal trades.

After Little Potato left, there was a pistachio missing in the Suns locker room, which made the already serious and depressing atmosphere of the Suns this season even more depressing.

As a mid-term firefighter, Tim Thomas is very in line with the Suns' offensive requirements.

As a power forward, he has a good three-pointer, and his three-point shooting percentage this season is as high as 40%!

But after playing for a while, everyone discovered that Tim Thomas could not actually change the dilemma of the Suns.

Tim Thomas is almost useless except for three-pointers.

As the saying goes, you can't help but do not suppress your body if you have more skills.

Although Thomas' 40% three-point shooting percentage is very good, he basically scores goals in large open spaces.

Damn, how many super open spaces can you make in a game?

As a woman, you may be useless except being good-looking. After all, no matter how good your work is, you will be useless if you look ugly.

But men are not good. You don’t even have a lot of tricks when walking around the world. It’s useless to just have a good hit rate.

When Xiao Si was there, he was able to shoot, but he could also play by himself, and he could also eat cakes inside and outside.

Tim Thomas is basically an anti-aircraft turret, and half of the average shots come from outside the three-point line.

As for the V-shaped pick-and-roll ending, Tim Thomas can't do it.

And Tim Thomas' defense is even more of a disaster.

Xiao Si's defense has been trained by Master Tang for so many years, not to mention that he has reached the top level in the league, but at least it is above the average level.

Xiao Si's defense was poor in history, and he had not laid a good foundation since childhood.

In this history, Master Tang corrected his basic foundation and trained it since childhood, the effect was revealed.

But Tim Thomas is different. He is already past the age of laying the foundation.

Now it’s too late to train!

Now, whether he is defensive, his defensive enthusiasm or his physical condition, it is not enough to make him a defender above the level.

Therefore, in addition to occasionally hitting open three-pointers in the Suns, he is not as useful as Haslem.

At least he really gets involved if he has something to do.

If a championship team wants to change the status quo, it is really not possible to achieve it with a few scraps of materials.

In the original history, the Lakers' robbery transactions against Spanish sister-in-law are just an isolated case.

In this way, under the leadership of Li Ang and Nash, the Suns were nervously winning 58 wins in the regular season and entered the playoffs as the third in the West.

In fact, if we follow the rules of the original history, the Suns should be ranked second in the West.

Although before the Suns, the top two best record in the Western Conference were the 68-win Mavericks and 63-win Spurs.

But the NBA ranking rules in the original history are different from those now.

In the original history, the two NBA branches are divided into three small divisions, and the first place in each division is the top three in each division.

So although the Mavericks won 60 wins in 2006, because the Spurs were the first in the Southwest Division, even if they won 60, they could only ranked second in the Southwest Division.

At that time, the Suns were the first in the Pacific Division, so according to the principle of top rankings in the division, the Mavericks could only rank fourth behind the Spurs, the Suns and the Nuggets.

The 60-win Marquis are behind the 44-win Nuggets, which is funny enough.

Therefore, in the summer of 2006, the league changed its rules, and the ranking was purely based on the record, regardless of the competition area.

In this history, because the Mavericks formed a whole wheat toast combination last season and had excellent results, Stern changed the ranking rules one year in advance considering that there is a possibility of higher performance but a lower ranking.

Starting this season, the NBA has been ranked purely by record.

Therefore, the Suns can only rank third with 58 wins.

With the arrival of the playoffs, many people began to slander the prospects of the Suns.

Li Ang's pursuit of Jordan began to be blocked. Many people who didn't like Li Ang took the opportunity to jump out and say that Li Ang's three consecutive championships before was a bonus from his teammates.

Now, once the teammates fail, they will immediately reveal their true colors.

A real GOAT will not cause a decline in the performance due to the failure of teammates!

Although this season's regular season Li An averaged 33.7 points per game behind Kobe, ranking second in the league in scoring.

Although this season's regular season, Li Ang played 22 times, 5 times, 5 times, and 60 times, and his performance in all aspects was better than last season.

Besides, the West is third and 58 wins, which is not bad either.
To be continued...